From the significant chain to the constellation of letters: the signs of jouissance

Abstract

From the significant chain to the constellation of letters: the signs of jouissance. The constellation functioning, that starts with Mallarmé (1897) and invigorates mainly in the first half of the twentieth century in the field of Letters and Arts, declines at the beginning of the seventies, moment in which it enters into consideration in the field of Psychoanalysis in the text "Lituraterra" (1971). This entrance, from which the letter becomes a sign of jouissance, is made possible by the decline of structuralism and of the linearity of the saussurian linguistics and, in some way, it opens the trails to the borromean writing.